@drsplace

Animal Scientist. Interested in sustainability & the intersection of agriculture & the environment, among other things. Views my own.

 Fort Collins, CO
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Joined July 2018
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“Sustainable food” discussions nearly always get boiled down to environmental footprints, which is just one piece of environmental sustainability. When will we move beyond comparing footprints (e.g. #GHG/kcal) as a proxy for sustainability?
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JOSH ALLEN DOING JOSH ALLEN THINGS!!!! 📺: CBS
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A source of error in cattle experiments in the feedlot. How much feed do these well-fed pigeons eat each day that we attribute to cattle?
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Everybody is getting on the protein trend
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DrAcfa 🇺🇸
@DrAcfaAug 21

Trump’s Beef Tariff Relief: Brazilian Packers Win, U.S. Ranchers Lose

Article · @DrAcfa
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Feed intake, gas, and gas flux measurements to determine efficiency & phenotype beef cattle.
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NASA Artemis
@NASAArtemisApr 11
"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
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NASA
@NASAApr 11
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.
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Reuters
@ReutersJan 7
Brazil surpassed the US as the world's leading beef producer last year, driven by higher-than-expected output and strong export demand, which helped ease global supply shortages and limit a surge in meat prices reut.rs/3Z7faax

Brazil surpasses US as top beef producer - Business

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Ruminating on a new week
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Sunrise on the research feedyard. Collecting individual cattle feed intake, growth performance, & gas flux on 250 head investigating if different doses of supplemental fat in the diet affect cattle growth performance and methane emissions.
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Paper examining the “carbon footprint” of meat consumption in US cities. Total estimated footprint is 329 Mt of CO2e, which is around 5.2% of US gross GHG emissions in 2022. nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain

Nature Climate Change - Meat products represent a large share of the carbon footprints of cities, which are dependent on the characteristics of supply regions. With spatially explicit data,...

nature.com
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One of the “demand side” measures is cutting beef consumption in half and switch that consumption to chicken. The only way this cuts emissions is if there are are fewer cattle & likely farms, ranches, feedlots, & people who have livelihoods supported by cattle
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Are we sure that level of socioeconomic impact & potential ecological impact (what happens to the grazinglands?) is worth “saving” 92 Mt of CO2e or 1% of US GHG emissions? We need better metrics & assessments of the food system to avoid simplistic solutions that ignore tradeoffs
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New episode! 🚨 We sat down with @drsplace, a leading voice in beef sustainability, to talk about progress happening across industry. From innovation on the ground to science guiding real climate solutions, this is a CLEAR Conversation you can't miss. 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/21t…
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Interesting new pre-print: "Overall, our findings do not support the hypothesis that expanding plant-based meat analogues offerings alone can meaningfully shift consumer choices away from meat" econpapers.repec.org/paper/o…
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MATT PRATER FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! 📺: @SNFonNBC

Matt Prater Makes Game-Winning Field Goal | Bills vs. Ravens Week 1

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Why shouldn’t we consider most “generative AI” plagiarism of others thoughts, work, and creativity?
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Number of beef & dairy cows in the US since 1920. Since the peak in 1975, the US has 19.7 million fewer cows in 2025. As dairy cows as a % of total have grown in the past two decades, their contribution to the beef supply has become more important
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